A Warwick University team, led by Professor Peter Sadler, is exploring potential new cancer treatment based on the rare precious metal osmium. EU funding helped them carry out laboratory experiments on cancer cells which show that the treatment has potential against ovarian and bowel cancer.

UK respondents were amongst the top contributors (105,000) to the Commission's public consultation on the Fitness Check of EU rules on the conservation of wild birds and Europe's habitats. Only Germany submitted more with 106,000 contributions. Ov...

In a drive to have a go at the EU, on 20 July some UK newspapers (Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail) chose to ridicule circus artists and coconut production. The articles call funding for deprived communities in some of the poorest parts in the world “frivolous expenditure” and illustrate their point with photos of appealing beaches […]